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* Chris from ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' uses a machete as his default melee weapon. His partner [[Knife Nut|uses a knife]]. |
* Chris from ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' uses a machete as his default melee weapon. His partner [[Knife Nut|uses a knife]]. |
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* ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' has machetes that are quite obviously made from broken lawn mower blades. There is also an option to do a [[Reverse Grip]] attack in VATS. Coincidentally [[Danny Trejo]], the actor who plays Machete, is also in the game though his character is [[The Gunslinger]]. Caesar's Legion uses them extensively, in lieu of the historical ''gladius'', because there's no readily-available stock of period Roman swords in the post-apocalyptic American West. |
* ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' has machetes that are quite obviously made from broken lawn mower blades. There is also an option to do a [[Reverse Grip]] attack in VATS. Coincidentally [[Danny Trejo]], the actor who plays Machete, is also in the game though his character is [[The Gunslinger]]. Caesar's Legion uses them extensively, in lieu of the historical ''gladius'', because there's no readily-available stock of period Roman swords in the post-apocalyptic American West. |
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* ''[[Postal]] 2 Apocalypse Weekend'' added three [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throwable melee weapons]] to the roster; among them is a machete that [[Precision |
* ''[[Postal]] 2 Apocalypse Weekend'' added three [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throwable melee weapons]] to the roster; among them is a machete that [[Precision-Guided Boomerang|worked like a boomerang.]] |
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* In ''[[Scarface the World Is Yours (Video Game)|Scarface the World Is Yours]]'', machete wielding mooks are all over the place. At one point survival depends on punching out one of them, taking his blade and hacking up a gunman. Ambushes help. |
* In ''[[Scarface the World Is Yours (Video Game)|Scarface the World Is Yours]]'', machete wielding mooks are all over the place. At one point survival depends on punching out one of them, taking his blade and hacking up a gunman. Ambushes help. |
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* One of Sakon Shima's [[BFS|huge swords]] in ''[[Samurai Warriors]] 2'' is an oversized machete. |
* One of Sakon Shima's [[BFS|huge swords]] in ''[[Samurai Warriors]] 2'' is an oversized machete. |
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== Web Original == |
== Web Original == |
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* Vadiir and the Laughing Clown in ''[[Dark Dream Chronicle]]'' each own a Black Iron kuri machete. Hanna has mentioned that she has several [[Shout |
* Vadiir and the Laughing Clown in ''[[Dark Dream Chronicle]]'' each own a Black Iron kuri machete. Hanna has mentioned that she has several [[Shout-Out|emergency]] [[Everyman HYBRID|machetes]], as well. |
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== [[Real Life]] == |
== [[Real Life]] == |
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* Machetes were used as weapons in a slew of uprisings and rebellions throughout the Third World, especially in Cuba. Check [[The Other Wiki]] on guys like [ |
* Machetes were used as weapons in a slew of uprisings and rebellions throughout the Third World, especially in Cuba. Check [[The Other Wiki]] on guys like [[wikipedia:Ten Yearschr(27) War|Carlos Manuel de Cespedes]] for example. |
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** In the rural areas of Venezuela, people used it for dueling instead of swords. And there were those hardcore farmers that [[Crazy Prepared|hid them under their pillows and/or matresses]], but that was before the robbers met the firearms. |
** In the rural areas of Venezuela, people used it for dueling instead of swords. And there were those hardcore farmers that [[Crazy Prepared|hid them under their pillows and/or matresses]], but that was before the robbers met the firearms. |
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* On a far more depressing note, the Rwandan Genocide was chiefly conducted by men wielding machetes. See [[Hotel Rwanda]] for details. |
* On a far more depressing note, the Rwandan Genocide was chiefly conducted by men wielding machetes. See [[Hotel Rwanda]] for details. |
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* The machete on the [ |
* The machete on the [[wikipedia:Flag of Angola|Angolan flag?]] It actually stands for ''[[Harsher in Hindsight|agriculture.]]'' |
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